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Several philosophies of defining prevail—not too abstruse to go into in VERBATIM, but a not entirely appropriate aside here—and the style cleaved to by Gove attempts an approach that is progressively restrictive or expansive, depending on the nature of the word defined.
As history grew more and more abstruse in the '60s and '70s, historians ceded the role of public intellectual to journalists.
… A profile of Center for Biological Diversity leader Kierán Suckling details his successful environmental extremism, founded oddly on abstruse lit-crit theory.
I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.
Very little of it is about anything at all abstruse.